A study on the influence of network environment on college students’ ideological and political attitudes

Abstract

The network environment is gradually formed and developed under the impetus of information technology, and it plays an important role in transmitting political concepts, forming political attitudes, and cultivating political identity. After exploring the dilemma of ideological and political education in the network environment, this paper uses polynomial least squares approximation to construct polynomial regressions to solve various nonlinear regression problems. Then, the network environment factors such as bad guidance, network technology, cultural penetration, and false information are taken as independent variables. College students’ ideological and political attitudes are taken as dependent variables to construct a multivariate nonlinear regression model, observe the polynomial regression parameters according to the principle of least-squares estimation, and take 489 college students of the University of R as the research subjects to explore the influence of network environment on college students’ ideological and political attitudes. The results show that the correlation coefficients of four factors, namely, poor guidance of network environment, network technology, cultural penetration, and false information, with students’ ideological and political attitudes range from 0.178 to 0.531, which is a significant positive correlation. Meanwhile, compared with political cognition and political emotion, network environment factors explain the strongest tendency of political behavior (54.9%), and different network environment factors have various degrees of influence on college students’ ideological and political attitudes. The study offers data to support the cultivation and strengthening of college students’ ideological and political attitudes.